Wired: "At first glance I was convinced that this new system would make the game incredibly easy, but instead it serves to make SoZ more easily resemble the pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons games from which the computer series was spawned.
Those who loved the clever writing and snappy dialogue from the computer-controlled companions in past Dungeons & Dragons titles (Boo and Minsc come to mind), need not fear a world full of mute drones awaiting the moment when you'll posess them -- you can also pick up a maximum of two party members throughout the course of the story who are entirely self-sufficient. None of these characters are on par with the aforementioned warrior and space hamster, but they do add appropriate amounts of gravitas and levity as necessary."
GamersGate are having a massive weekend sale offering 66% off Neverwinter Nights titles.
NWN2 has been patched to 1.23, which has finally added a multiplayer file auto-downloader, and many other in-game fixes.
Find the patch notes here:
http://nwn2patch.obsidian.net/files/beta/patch_Notes_v123_beta2.rtf
Great day for the NWN2 mod Community.
Hopefully people will make the transition from NWN1 who didnt join us before!
I've had a copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 signed by Obsidian dev team for a couple months now. /brag
I haven't played it, though. Maybe I'll try it out this weekend.
GameBanshee writes: "From reading the forums here, I know that there are some people out there who hate Obsidian Entertainment with a passion, and who for some reason think that Knights of the Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 are an affront to western civilization. I'm not one of those people. I'd much rather champion a developer who tries new and interesting things but sometimes fails, rather than simply going along with a developer who clones ideas and succeeds. But something just seems to be wrong with Obsidian. They usually come up with good ideas, but can they actually develop games? Can they finish a project on time and without a plethora of bugs? Recent evidence suggests that the answer to these questions is "no," and Storm of Zehir, their latest expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2, is at best a black eye for them."